Cross-site scripting in Jazz Reporting Service - CVE-2015-7465
Published: January 10, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40530
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7465
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
Jazz Reporting Service
Jazz Reporting Service
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE) in IBM Jazz Reporting Service (JRS) 6.0 before 6.0.0-Rational-CLM-ifix005. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-7465
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.